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same-named fields on a form

Hi all,

I have created a PDF with Acrobat, manually inserting two (or more) 
TextField's with the same name. When I open this PDF with Acrobat, all 
the fields appear. I wrote a program to read the PDF and I see that 
reader.AcroFields.Fields.Count corresponds to the number of "distinct" 
field names. When I look at reader.AcroFields.Fields[fieldname] I note 
that the attributes (page, tabOrder, etc.) occupy lists that are two (or 
more) long. Happily, I see the same when I generate the PDF file with 
iText (iTextSharp, actually), and read the file.

However, the machine-made PDF, when opened under Acrobat, only shows the 
first field, I cannot see the duplicates. If I ask Acrobat about 
annotations (via Document|Preflight... & analyze), it can see the dupes. 
I set all fields BaseField.VISIBLE. If I tweak my program to generate a 
PDF with distinct fieldname's Acrobat will show all my fields.

Where should I look to see what I'm doing wrong or not doing?

Thanks in advance,

steve



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